Notes

01 September 1953
Comments Notes Nesting of Curlew on river shingle-beds.--Of late years Curlews (Numenius arquata) have been nesting in increasing numbers on inland pastures and meadows in Northumberland, whereas formerly they were birds of the moorlands, nesting on heather-clad hills ...
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01 July 1948
Comments Notes DURING the spring of 1947 I saw what certainly appeared to be bigamous behaviour by a male Rook (Corvus f. frugilegus) Unfortunately, the observations were rather disjointed, a continuous watch not being possible. On March 14th a well-advanced nest was s...
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01 July 1942
Comments Notes THE following notes relate to a mimber of species, several of whose Status now appears to differ from that described in H. E. Forrest's Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales (1907) and Handbook to the Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales (1919). Unless otherwise st...
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01 January 1941
Comments Notes ON November 2nd, 1940, in a field with small trees at the edge of a wood near Potter's Bar, I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity of watching a bird, which was evidently a Lesser Grey Shrike (Lanius minor). The bird flew to the top of a bare hawt...
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01 October 1939
Comments Notes FOR some years a pair of Grey Wagtails (Motacilla c. cinerea) have nested in and round a house in Ireland choosing as sites the window ledges of upstairs windows or the thick stems of a Virginian creeper, the nest being either built along a branch or in ...
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01 April 1939
Comments Notes THE following few notes were made mostly during the summer of 1938, and are the result of short expeditions and visits to the two counties. CHOUGH (Pyrrhocorax p. pyrrhocorax).---It was pleasing to be able to count twenty-one together on the grassy slopes...
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01 January 1939
Comments Notes IN winter flocks of Snow-Buntings (Pledrophenax n. nivalis) frequent the summits and higher slopes of the mountains of the Lake District. Counts of these have frequently exceeded fifty birds; the largest counted was one of 117. I have seen a flock on the...
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01 March 1938
Comments Notes I HAVE paid particular attention to the singing of Crossbills (Loxia c. curvirostra) for some years, on and off, and I find that the song can be divided into four main varieties. In attempting to describe these songs below, I use the two sound descriptio...
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01 August 1937
Comments Notes "--As many ornithologists are already aware a new edition of A Practical Handbook of British Birds has been for some time in preparation. We should be very grateful to any of our readers who would now send us notes of any omissions or errors in the origin...
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01 December 1936
Comments Notes THE Scandinavian Jackdaw (Colasus m. monedula) has only recently been definitely added to the British List, and the only positive examples recorded hitherto were two from Suffolk by Dr. C. B. Ticehurst (cf. antea, Vol. XXVIII, p. 90). It is therefore of ...
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